Man gets 5 years for 30-pound meth deal

GULFPORT, Miss.—A man who flew from Los Angeles to Gulfport, Miss., to transport 30 pounds of methamphetamine has been sentenced to prison for five years.

The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/ZcLEuB) Hector Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez will be turned over for deportation to Mexico after his prison term is over. He received the maximum penalty on a guilty plea to interstate travel in aid of drug racketeering enterprises.

Ramirez-Lopez was using a fictitious name when he and an acquaintance came to Gulfport on commercial flights in May. His acquaintance was under surveillance by federal drug agents who received a tip about a man coming to Gulfport to coordinate a meth delivery.